DEFCON: Defense Readiness Condition; DEFCON Five: normal peacetime activities; DEFCON Four: increase intelligence watch and increase security; DEFCON Three: forces on standby, awaiting further orders; DEFCON Two: forces ready for combat; DEFCON One: forces deployed for combat. In this explosive bestseller, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised on the brink of Armageddon. Glasnost has failed, Russia is economically desperate, and Gorbachev's...